Is it possible to make it work using my laptop sound card (alsa driver) and usb-midi cable ? What is the lower latency I can get ? (so far I can get 185 ms using ableton on a vm)

Is it better to use jack or jack2 ? Is there any linux distro where the complete system works better ? (hydrogen + jack + midi + usb-midi). What are the mandatory things I need to check to make it work ? (kernel modules , drivers , libraries , etc )